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Fallacious vs Imaginary - What's the difference?

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Fallacious is a related term of imaginary.


As adjectives the difference between fallacious and imaginary

is that fallacious is characterized by fallacy; false or mistaken while imaginary is existing only in the imagination.

As a noun imaginary is

imagination; fancy.

fallacious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Characterized by fallacy; false or mistaken.
  • Deceptive or misleading.
  • Usage notes

    * Nouns often used with "fallacious": argument, reasoning, etc.

    See also

    * wrong * incorrect * illogical * deceiving * deceitful * misleading * delusive * illusive * illusory * erroneous * faulty * specious

    imaginary

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • existing only in the imagination
  • * Addison
  • Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer / Imaginary ills and fancied tortures?
  • (mathematics) of a number, having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of the square root of -1.
  • Derived terms

    * imaginarily * imaginariness

    Noun

    (imaginaries)
  • Imagination; fancy.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 324:
  • By then too Mozart's opera, from Da Ponte's libretto, had made Figaro a stock character in the European imaginary and set the whole Continent whistling Mozartian airs and chuckling at Figaresque humour.
  • (mathematics) An imaginary quantity.